Crabtownboy said:Well that is one way of side stepping the question. IMHO if such a fact were proven an error and it hurt or destroyed a person's faith, then I question if that person's faith has any depth to it in the hear and now. And to me, now at this stage of my life, faith is more of a verb than a noun. What do I mean? Well, anyone can say I believe and it may or may not be true. But show me your works, as James calls them, and I will show you your faith. I am not saying that works saves, but that works shows what a person's faith is all about.
Dietrich Bonehoffer gives great insight into this in his book, The Cost of Discipleship. If you have not read it I strongly recomment it. As he points out, we are not to dispense cheap grace as grace is not cheap just as discipleship is not cheap. In fact, true discipleship may cost a person his/her life. To be a true disciple of Christ we give him our life, it is no longer our own. We must be willing to go where he leads, to do what he wills. We are to give all to him and if we are unwilling to give all, then we are still small in our faith.
Christ spoke very little about what we are to believe, but he spoke a lot about how we are to treat others. Remember the judgement as recorded in Matthew. It was not beliefs by which the "sheep" and "goats" were judged, but by what they did ... what their faith led them to do or not to go.
IMHO you infact side stepped what I said. And you seem to separate faith and discipleship. Scripture doesnt. This emphasis of treating others over what we believe is nonsensical. I do not say that to be bombastic. Faith and discipleship are in fact one. You cannot have faith and not be a disciple. The Bible is full of what we are to believe. And Christ spoke quite extensively about that.
I would also add that discipleship has the eternal in view not so much what is going on now which was clearly exemplified in Christs ministry.
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